{"id":53510,"date":"2025-09-23T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=53510"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:06:58","slug":"maggie-mertens","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/maggie-mertens\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Mertens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maggie Mertens<\/strong> is an independent journalist and author. Her work, which often focuses on the intersection between gender, culture, and sport, has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and The Guardian, among others. 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